| A Perfect Circle – Judith Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I actually think this song is pretty literal, and if it isn't, it's a close parallel to the concept of continuing to put your faith in someone or something that continually lets you down. "It's not like you killed someone/it's not like you drove an evil spear into his side." Here I think he's saying that she should question why God is allowing bad things to continue to happen to her. It's not like she's a bad person and *deserves* it. Apparently, she never even questions how someone who supposedly died for her can allow her to continue to be in pain. It makes me think of people who believe that God "took their loved ones" away, but continue to believe that God is loving. So many contradictions in Christianity, you have to take it on blind faith, or you'd never be able to sleep at night. |
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| System of a Down – Toxicity Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Checked around the SoaD site also to see what I can see, and someone posted a news article from Circus Magazine. The last part was interesting, and might help in the interpretation: "I think people lost the ability to listen to their intuitions, trust their gut feelings. I honestly believe that we - the human race - lost the ability to trust our intuitions and we rely far too much on our intellects. Now I am not saying thinking is wrong, definately not, but we could ask ourselves why we have certain feelings and that they might not always be unfounded. We should really try to remember what is important, we have to think about the world we live in and not just money. In a way we turned into consumers without thinking about the costs. I am not talking about money, I'm talking about nature. If we kep on exploiting our planet, then soon there won't be any markets left, because there won't be a world left in which we could live in." "Those were the thoughts I had in mind when I wrote toxicity, I wasn't just thinking about the social problems, I was also thinking about the environmental problems and anybody who claims we don't have them must be stupid or blind!" |
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| System of a Down – Toxicity Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Well, I think this is a definite wake up song. Conversion Software Version 7.0 Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub, Eating seeds as a past time activity, The toxicity of our city, of our city. I think this is telling us to stop being so fucking lazy, pardon the term. As days go by, we're becoming more and more content to let our lives pass us by, instead of "taking control of our destiny" so to speak. The first line could literally apply to computers/the internet, but I think it's more of our growing dependence on these things. A tire hub (had to think on this) goes round and round-- futile, if you consider it. I think this is addressing the people willing to sit back and watch their lives lived for them, to watch the world go on and on around them. I think the eating seeds as a past time activity was something of an exaggeration, an illustration about the futile things we occupy ourselves with, instead of facing the real world, the real issues. More wood for their fires, loud neighbors, flashlight reveries caught in the headlights of a truck I think more reference to the comfortable living we've accustomed ourselves to at the expense of the planet-- more wood for their fires, perhaps reference to using up more resources than we need for the sake of luxury? Loud neighbors, I imagine is the representation of taking the bad with the good, to keep the good-- perfect example-- being willing to sacrifice our privacy for the government to make us "safer" (let's not get into that argument, though). I think the illustration there is so long as we can remain cozy, gobbling up as much resources as we want, we feel we can ignore the "loud neighbors". I could be reaching here! *grin* Flashlight reveries caught in the headlights of a truck-- I had to visualize for a while. I think when in context with the rest, this addresses things that have been uncovered. Dirt within our government and such. The illustration I think is supposed to be someone sneaking around, and then finding themselves fully exposed in the oncoming lights of a truck-- perhaps in reference to our government? It's quite obvious that they have their "flashlight" operations, where only those who "need to know" are "in the know", especially in the US. And most Americans are content to just accept that as well, in exchange for that perceived "safety" the government represents. I think this could also be addressing the many secrets held by churches and organized religion-- there's a lot of dirt there (coming so clear in the present days) that has been glossed over for a long time. The more I listen to this song, I get the impression that it is definitely a "wake up, don't let the government/the media/organized religion live your life for you" song. Now where the rest of the song seems aimed at society at large, a huge fucking WAKE UP, the chorus seems aimed at the sources-- the government. The media. Religion. Somewhere between the sacred silence (quite possibly the silence that we maintain, the blind eye we cast, in exchange for percieved security) and sleep (out and out ignorance) is disorder-- that is, a society filled with people who, if they would wake up, stop being fat and lazy, wouldn't stand for the dishonesties and such. New, what do you own the world? how do you own disorder? I think this is telling the forces that believe they run our sociey (most often with our sheeplike willingness) that it's a tenuous hold at best, don't get *too* comfortable with the concept that we'll continue to accept what they've been feeding us. When I became the sun, I shone life into the man's hearts. I think he considers himself enlightened (when I became the sun = when he became "hip to the game" so to speak)-- someone able to see what the rest of us are too asleep to see. I think he believes that he's got a valid message to send, and he's trying to send it (shining life into man's hearts = giving them their official five o clock wake up call). That's what I've gotten out of this song. SoaD claims that they're not a political band, but this isn't necessarily about politics, more about extending our awareness further than the small world we manage to build for ourselves. It seems obvious that most people couldn't be bothered to think outside of their own backyards, and I think this song is definitely anti that. |
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| System of a Down – The Metro (Berlin cover) Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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...Not really! :) That was my fairly unisex interpretation. Berlin's version doesn't really change, but it's a bit feminized, in my estimation. For example, I could see a guy holding (and breaking) a glass in his hand in anger, but could you really see a woman doing it? "I'm alone, sitting with my empty glass." <-- strikes me as much more what a female would do. Listening to it, I do consider some other possibilities, but mostly minute differences (all in my estimation, of course)-- like... the meeting in London being accidental, as opposed to prearranged. An accidental meeting has just as much opportunity for those shallow words and fumbling regrets that really mean little in the long run. Of course, again, all my interpretation! |
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| System of a Down – The Metro (Berlin cover) Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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The Metro. A famous Paris subway system which is a part of a bigger collection of train/sub systems called the Eurail (which spans over seven European countries and into others last I knew). This makes the possibility of "I was on a Paris Train/I emerged in London rain" rather literal, where The Metro refers not to just one train, but that whole system of trains. So. This is a story within a story. The singer is sitting, alone, probably at home, remembering the train ride that just took place. Perhaps the same day, probably the day, even a week before. The walls seem to close in on him, he's plagued with memories, strong and vivid. He'd been holding an empty glass in his hand, staring at it, probably squeezing it unconsciously as he remembers. Can't you visualize the glass breaking in his grasp? This train ride he's remembering? He gets a call to meet an "old friend", perhaps for coffee or lunch, to talk about old times. This old friend is a lover, someone that he's never really gotten over... and maybe she's at a point in her life where she's contacting old exes and looking for closure (many of us go through that phase). "I was on a Paris train/I emerged in London rain/and you were waiting there/swimming through apologies." He gets on the Metro in Paris, switches over as necessary, and gets off the train in a damp and rain-ridden London, and there she is, looking as beautiful as ever, probably glowing. Hell, she's probably seeing someone, let's go so far as to say engaged, either way, she's much happier than he's been since she left. "Minutes passed with shallows words/Years have passed, and still the hurt." They have coffee. He's putting on a brave face there, smiling as she hugs him, even though it probably hurt to touch her again, after so long. They exchange a stiff and superficial conversation, in which she expresses apologies over the way things ended-- which was, apparently, with her saying that she was leaving... him trying to find the right words to make her stay (I imagine him begging, and she still doesn't--that's gotta hurt), and her eventually ending it all with a LETTER for Christ's sake. And not just ANY letter-- the infamous "I'll Love You Always" letter. The "This isn't about you, it's about me," letter. Shudder. And as he got back on the train at the station, there she was, smiling and waving him off. The train ride on the way back was filled with memories; memories of begging her to stay, memories of the night they walked along the Seine (probably out on one of many hand-holding, star-gazing, every-finger-kissing, This Is My Soul Mate dates). The soldier? Literal character. Y'know how those really painful moments seem to have two varieties--where everything is blurred, out of focus-- or where everything is crisp, and painfully detailed? I think this is an example of the latter; lost in memories, he notices everything. The soldier sleeping next to him. An absent piece of paper lying on the floor. A ticket stub tucked into the clip three seats ahead of him. A baby five isles over suckling a blue-and-yellow-striped pacifier. The ride's over. The soldier gets up and exits the train. A wisp of engine smoke passes the window; beyond, people coming and going, exiting and climbing aboard. He exits the train, heads back home, and once there? Perhaps he takes this glass out of a cabinet to get something to drink... but he never quite gets there. Memories plague him. It's... a really sad song-- to me, it's about not finding closure. "FUCK. YOU. FOR LOVING ME." That line makes me shiver. Sigh. Oh, yeah, I do think this is something that happened, for real (to the person who wrote the original version, or someone she knows). And I could be wrong! Completely! It's just how I envision it. |
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| Happa-Tai – Yatta Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This... is a happy little song about being content with one's lot in life. I think it's a great song, and damn, the VIDEO to go with it is even funnier. | |
| Silverman – Ctrl Alt Delete Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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The song is a dual-parter, a male and female voice interlaced together, illustrating (in my belief) how a love can slowly die, leaving the two involved in it aching to leave, but afraid to, for the fear of being alone. "I know you know it/You know I know it too" ...They both realize that they should call an end to it, but haven't yet. Perhaps they will. I get the impression that it would be a good thing. |
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| Silverman – Ctrl Alt Delete Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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The song is a dual-parter, a male and female voice interlaced together, illustrating (in my belief) how a love can slowly die, leaving the two involved in it aching to leave, but afraid to, for the fear of being alone. "I know you know it/You know I know it too" ...They both realize that they should call an end to it, but haven't yet. Perhaps they will. I get the impression that it would be a good thing. |
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